incubatory

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English

Adjective

incubatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving for or pertaining to incubation.
    Synonym: incubative
    • 1922, Report of the Danish Biological Station, page 34:
      The measurement investigations show furthermore that some of the wintered gammarid females commenced to get eggs in their incubatory pouches at about the end of January.
    • 2005, D.R. Khanna, Biology of Echinodermata, page 152:
      Two incubatory pockets in the body wall also occur in Cucumaria coatsi.
    • 2016, Sergey Minov, “The therapy for grief and the practice of incubation in early medieval Palestine”, in Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Derek Krueger, editors, Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries, page 220:
      Incubatory medicine was popular in the Greco-Roman world, the most famous example being the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros in southern Greece, which attracted many pilgrims seeking healing.

Noun

incubatory (plural incubatories)

  1. A building where eggs are incubated.
    • 1888 February, “An Egyptian Incubatory”, in The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal, volume 46, number 2, page 58:
      As already stated, the incubatory is constructed of sun-dried bricks, mortar and earth.
    • 1890, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Commercial Relations of the United States, page 504:
      Eggs are bought for the incubatory at never exceeding 5 cents per dozen, and chicks just from the shell are sold at less than 15 cents per dozen.

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